Rainbow Six: Patriots

Rainbow Six: Siege was announced at E3 2014 last week, and many of you out there must be wondering why Ubisoft canned the game Rainbow Six: Patriots. Well, the publisher has explained it in a new interview.

Two of the largest third-party publishers in the world went head to head at E3 2014. Ubisoft and EA may not have a historic rivalry, but you can’t tell us they weren’t competing for your love in LA last night.

With Sam Fisher sneaking/shooting/dog-throwing his way across screens from today, you might have forgotten about Ubisoft’s other Tom Clancy franchise. Luckily they haven’t. Fresh news from gamescom tells us that Rainbow Six: Patriots is still very much in the pipeline.

Rainbow Six: Patriots pre-orders at GameStop have been binned, sparking rumours that Ubisoft’s squad shooter has either been cancelled or is being re-tooled significantly. The latter is probably the likely answer though, so take this with a pinch of salt.

Rainbow Six: Patriots is still in development despite a run of radio silence since its initial reveal. Ubisoft president Yves Guillemot has teased a big reveal for the shooter, stating that it will ‘surprise the industry’. Find out why below.

Airing tonight at the VGAs, Ubisoft’s shown a brand new trailer of Rainbow Six: Patriots, showing a top banker pushed to his death while a bomb strapped to him detonates on the citizens of New York. No doubt this is taking on the current events in the world economic situation. The Ubisoft Montreal shooter launches […]

Ubisoft Montreal currently has 200 people working on Rainbow Six: Patriots, according to the studio’s director of comms Cedric Orvoine. The fact comes in a video tour of the Ubisoft flagship studio by Game Informer as part of the magazine’s exhaustive coverage on the Clancy sequel. You can watch the video here. R6: Patriots launches […]

Ubisoft’s released a target render video of Rainbow Six: Patriots gameplay, as the company believes it’s about to be leaked anyway. The good news? It’s your birthday. The bad news? Take your finger off R2 to find out.

Domain registrations filed by Ubisoft around the same time as Ubisoft Assassin’s Creed: Recollection, suggest that the next Rainbow Six game could finally have a title, and rumors over on NeoGAF state the game is set for a reveal in the next issue of Xbox World Magazine.